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The Pardon

James Grippando · 412 pages

An estranged father and son -- one a brilliant defense lawyer, the other the governor of Florida -- must overcome their differences to stop a cunning psychopath.Jack Swyteck, a brilliant Miami defense attorney has spent years rebelling against his father, Harry, now Florida's governor. Their estrangement seems complete when Harry allows one of Jack's clients -- a man Jack believes is innocent -- t

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There Was A Little Girl

Ed McBain · 329 pages

Florida attorney Matthew Hope gets shot after some routine legal work for a circus turns into an investigation of the death of a dwarf.

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The Lawyer's Lawyer

James Sheehan

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Suspicion of Betrayal

Barbara Parker · 422 pages

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Hounded

David Rosenfelt · 368 pages

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A Fine Line

Gianrico Carofiglio · 280 pages

The fifth in the best-selling Guido Guerrieri series. When Judge Larocca is accused of corruption, Guerrieri goes against his better instincts and takes the case. Helped by Annapaola Doria, a motorbike-riding bisexual private detective who keeps a baseball bat on hand for sticky situations, he investigates the alleged links to the mafia. Of course Guerrieri cannot stop himself from falling for Ann

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Bear is Broken

Lachlan Smith · 256 pages

"Leo Maxwell grew up in the shadow of his older brother, Teddy, a successful yet reviled criminal defense attorney who racked up enemies as quickly as he racked up acquittals. As children, their father was jailed for the murder of their mother, and Teddy was left to care for Leo who tried to emulate his older brother, even following him into the legal profession. The two are at lunch one day when

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Last Witness

Jilliane Hoffman · 380 pages

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The Gods of Guilt

Michael Connelly · 387 pages

"Defense attorney Mickey Haller returns with a haunting case in the gripping new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game. Wh

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Rogue Lawyer

John Grisham · 344 pages

Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who's also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy. He lives alone in a small but extremely sa

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Hoax

Robert K. Tanenbaum · 640 pages

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The Fall

John Lescroart · 308 pages

San Francisco lawyers Dismas Hardy and his associate and only daughter Rebecca find themselves in the middle of a difficult murder case involving a teenage African American foster child.

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Th1rt3en

Steve Cavanagh · 356 pages

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The Brief

Simon Michael · 277 pages

In the 60s London of gangsters, prejudice and terrifying gang wars, Barrister Charles Holborne spends his life dealing with the worst examples of violent criminality. After successfully winning a number of high profile cases, he is building a reputation among Soho's criminal classes as a man who gets the job done, a reputation that doesn't endear him to his establishment colleagues. Yet Charles is

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Bagmen

William Lashner · 385 pages

Victor Carl is back, and back in trouble. At a low point in his lowly career, Victor finds himself skulking through the streets of Philadelphia carrying a bag full of money for an ambitious politician. It is a rotten job on the wrong side of anyone's line, but with bag in hand Victor is suddenly hobnobbing with the city's elite, filling his bank account, and having sex with the politician's gorgeo

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The Guilty Plea

Robert Rotenberg · 336 pages

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Pleasantville

Attica Locke · 432 pages

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Presumption of Innocence

Stephen Penner · 235 pages

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Killer Ambition

Marcia Clark · 554 pages

Would you kill to protect your career? Deputy DA Rachel Knight and Detective Bailey Keller are catapulted into the most high-profile investigation of their careers when the teenage daughter of superstar director Russell Antonovich, one of Hollywood's most powerful men, is kidnapped. Things go wrong fast. The young girl's body is found abandoned in the trunk of a car. And Rachel's hunt for the kill

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Rumpole and the Golden Thread

John Mortimer · 292 pages

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Michael Gresham

John Ellsworth · 316 pages

One hard-hitting criminal lawyer surrounded by dysfunction... Michael Gresham is a criminal attorney with a brother who won't take his meds, an ex-wife who wants him to finance her fertility costs, and a client accused of murdering the wife of a judge. As the story progresses the brother is being hunted down by MexTel, a huge conglomerate that wants him dead, and the ex-wife's new husband wants to

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Sly Fox

Jeanine Pirro · 292 pages

While investigating a series of brutal crimes against women and children in 1978 New York, Assistant District Attorney Dani Fox takes on the challenging case of a businessman who has been secretly molesting his young daughter for years.

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The Empty Copper Sea

John D. MacDonald · 256 pages

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